Initiating actions from the home page, from a machine group, or from a favorite

The home page, machine groups and favorites can be used to initiate patch scans, asset scans,power management actions,and to execute scripts. When performing these actions, Ivanti Patch for Windows® Servers will attempt to authenticate to each machine using a variety of credentials and will do so using the following strategy:

1.If one or more of the following are available, try to authenticate using the credential with the highest precedence, where the precedence order is as follows:

Example: If machine-level credentials are not available but group-level and default credentials are available, the program will use the group-level credentials.

2.If the credential used above does not work, then Integrated Windows Authentication (the credentials of the person currently logged on to the program) will be used.

If neither of these credentials work the scans and the power management tasks will fail.

One suggestion is to make your default credentials the same as the account credentials you typically use to log on to the program. This will eliminate problems that may occur if you forget to assign credentials.

Initiating actions from Machine View or Scan View

When initiating a scan, a patch deploymentor a power management actionfrom Machine View or Scan View, the program will attempt to authenticate to the target machines using a variety of credentials and will do so using the following strategy:

1.If one or more of the following are available, try to authenticate using the credential with the highest precedence, where the precedence order is as follows: